Towards commercialising cypress as a high-value plantation forest species

Report Date: March 2017
Author: Dean Satchell, Sustainable Forest Solutions, R.D. 1 Kerikeri, Northland 0294
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Cupressus hybrid clone, O'Carrol's Hawarden (OC2H)

Site	Year	Number measured/ total number planted	Growth & form	Health	Overall score
Bay of Plenty - Waiotapu	1996	6/7	4.7	6.8	5.7
Wairarapa, Tinui	1994 & 1995	2/15	5.3	6.6	5.9
Canterbury, Okuti Valley, Banks peninsula	1994 & 1995	12/15	4.5	5.6	5.0
Bay of Plenty - Kaingaroa	1997	5/10	6.0	8.0	7.0
South Canterbury, Waimate	1998	3/20	5.1	7.9	6.5
South Otago, Balclutha	1995 & 1996	7/12	6.5	8.1	7.3

Numbers measured/planted: 36/80

Form variable, often with double and multi leaders, broken and dead tops, wobbly and wonky stem. Variable health, but some trees were measured with severe canker. Four trees dead or dying.